1970Punk music [see sense A. 5a]. 1981 22 Mar. ii. 11/5 Contemporary English rock is often called post-punk because it is so much more varied and sophisticated, and so much less doctrinaire, than punk music.
2005 L. Leblanc ii. 38 Soon after seeing the Pistols, Billy Idol fronted Generation X, a band that speeded up punk music and cranked up its volume.